Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 28 - As The Short Journey Ends (First Half)

[GreenOwlRanger]

I repeat what I've said ad naseum: this isn't a flashback, not in the literary device sense. This is a new story, set in the same world, with a different protagonist. Hikari is not the only perspective character, she had Volume 1, and Yami has Volume 2. The story is not trying to get to the present, it's telling the story of a broken girl gaining and losing her first love. Who know what volume 3 will be. Maybe it will be Yuu's perspective.

Then this would be better served as another manga entirely, if that's the case. A lot of similar mangas with multiple stories have been divided into multiple parts.

It's not presented as an anthology either and uses some of the same characters.

A pivot to yet another character's "story" in volume 3 will probably only further divide its fanbase. And regardless, I don't think it's pulling this off well. According to some of the other commenters, this seems to be an recurring issue for this author.